Hi everybody, today we are here with the founder of “It's Art” (http://www.itsartmag.com , ndr).Hello Patrice Leymarie, first I want compliment with you for the work you done on the site which always offers interesting material and is a benchmark for many cg artist (and not only).

Can you tell us how is "born" this project?

IT’S ART is born 9 years ago. The first version of the website was a PDF Magazine in French and English. The goal was at this time to provide something about CG Artists, every two month but focusing on the creative process with In depth interviews. Years afater years, working alone on the project, I had to make some choices regarding the way to distribute the content : On the website or in PDF. The websites has changes a lot, I’d created a Gallery ( Cg Gallery ) a forum and after many changes the site has become what’s it’s now, a source of inspiration for CG Artists, without any advertisements, supporting artistic project via its own crowdfunding service and developing projects as master classes.

I guess it's very challenging to deal with IT’S ART. Do you have collaborators?

I manage almost alone IT’S ART since 9 years and I’m teaching two days / week at the same time. Sometimes, some people have helped me to support the website with some content, but most of the time I’m working alone on the project. Today, one of my former student is helping me with the Master Classes for some logistic and creative parts :-)

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Besides “It's Art” do you have other projects/activities?

I’m teaching in a new school dedicated to Internet in Paris, 2 Days a week. I focus on everything realted to UX and Web Design Aspect during the second and third year. I’m also tryng to develop more and more crowdfunded projects on IT’S ART after “Coverama” by Marc Simonetti (http://www.itsartmag.com/features/marc-simonetti/ , ndr) and “Behind The Pixels” by Mark Molnar (http://www.itsartmag.com/features/projects/behind-the-pixels/ ,ndr).

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In addition to the disclosure of tutorial, video and other material on you're website I read that you have organized a masterclass with respectable names from different filed and diffrent part of the World (like Andrew Schmidt, Marc Simonetti, Allan McKay to name a few ). I think is very difficult find a similar event in Europe. Can you tell about it? or better why organize that event?

Since the last two years, the website has grown quickly and fastly it was more and more obvious for me that the site IT’S ART had created a strong link between some artists and its audience. But there’s something really paradoxal with the internet, it helps you to create an audience, a community, but in some ways the ‘real life’ aspect is missing. You can for sure develop and increase your network, but at the end you need to meet the real human behind the keyboard and understand his real creative process. If you want to improve yourself or simply exchange some ideas, technics and ask questions, in my opinion, nothing replace a real face to face situation.

It was also really important for me to bring in a same place people who represent the CG industry in all its aspects, 2D, 3D, animation , VFX, and bring to the audience a panel of really experienced people sharing their passion and discussing the realtion between all parts.

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The event will be in Paris (14-15th March 2015) can you give us more details or a little sneak peek?

It’s will gather some big names of the Industry as for example Andrew Schmidt, Pixar Animator, Raphael Lacoste, Assassin’s Creed Art Director, VFX Supervisor Allan McKay for example. You can find the complete list and details on IT’S ARt : http://itsartm.ag/iamasterclasses , but as you can see I really want to mix high end people from the CG Industry from different fields and try to convince the audience that knowing all part of the industry is part of the success if you want to get a name in the industry.

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